In line with our theme of Filipino celebrations, Chef Mike posted a Paella Negra Stuffed Squid with Cream Sauce Aligue, just the sound of those words coming out of my orifices turns me on. So I am obliged to make a Filipino Paella Recipe. Here are the things that you need to inject your brain before we continue:
1. This recipe will be mostly based on the readily available ingredients for Paella in the Filipino Market. So if you’re thinking that we will add Thyme later, you are dreaming.
2. Although I told …

 
Hello hello major major! I hope you guys are looking forward to a fantastic week ahead. I know I am having one because I have a series coming up for you starting Tuesday about Filipino Street Food. Monday is for our resident chef, Chef Mike Santiago and he will give us a sneek peak into what we will talk about in the coming weeks ahead in this month of May. Before I go on, 2 things:
Congratulations to our hero, Manny Pacquiao for “bringing home the tocino” again and added another name …

This is the best bacon in the world. If you doubt my word, buy all the bacon imaginable in the deli, follow the Tocino recipe below, invite every red, yellow, black and white neighbor around your postcode and let them vote which is the best bacon in the world. Tocino will win in 3 different weights because:
1. It is the fattest and biggest bacon cut.
2. It is adorably sweet and it’s not salty compared to common kinds of bacon.
3. It is pink.
Although this Tocino recipe did not undergo the curing …

The politician on the left is essential so don’t wonder. Click this link first before reading on:
How does one make steamed rice without an electric rice cooker/steamer?
Have you chosen any of the suggestions there? Have you heard of rice poisoning? Anybody know if any one of them are still alive?
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to give you Oryza Sativa. And no, she is not from the collection of DVDs of your shady uncle, she is actually your mother. She is the life source of the vast part of the human population, the …